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Top Forums Programming Perl script remote execution as another user Post 302566200 by melias on Wednesday 19th of October 2011 06:59:23 PM
Old 10-19-2011
I understand how su & sudo work.

My requirement is to be able to switch users from within the perl script, so that specific actions/commands are performed under the required account. I do not want to ssh as the required user. I need to make the connection to the box as a specific user and then run the script (or parts of it) as a different user.

I do not want to use a wrapper script or any other external method, surely there must be a way to switch users from within the script itself. I will have a subsequent requirement where I want to switch to different users multiple times so I want to be able to do it only from within the script itself.

Thanks
 

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sieveshell

SIEVESHELL(1)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     SIEVESHELL(1)

NAME

       sieveshell - remotely manipulate sieve scripts

SYNOPSIS

       sieveshell [--user=user] [--authname=authname] [--realm=realm] [--exec=script] server[:port]

       sieveshell --help

DESCRIPTION

       sieveshell allows users to manipulate their scripts on a remote server.	It works via MANAGESIEVE, a work in progress.

       The following commands are recognized:

	   list list scripts on server.

	   put <filename> upload script to server.

	   get <name> [<filename>] get script. if no filename display to stdout

	   delete <name> delete script.

	   activate <name> activate script.

	   deactivate deactivate all scripts.

OPTIONS

       -u user, --user=user
	   The authorization name to request; by default, derived from the authentication credentials.

       -a authname, --authname=authname
	   The user to use for authentication (defaults to current user).

       -r realm, --realm=realm
	   The realm to attempt authentication in.

       -e script, --exec=script
	   Instead of working interactively, run commands from script, and exit when done.

REFERENCES

       [MANAGESIEVE] Martin, T.; "A Protocol for Remotely Managing Sieve Scripts", draft-ietf-managesieve-03.txt, Mirapoint, Inc.; May 2001, work
       in progress.

AUTHOR

       Tim Martin <tmartin@mirapoint.com>, and the rest of the Cyrus team <cyrus-bugs@andrew.cmu.edu>.

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